Doctor-patient mutual trust, telemedicine quality, and satisfaction: The role of knowledge management

Chien-Hsing LEE, Shu-Huei TSENG, Fu-Sheng TSAI

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Abstract. Distant medical care satisfaction demands high quality care result. Both quality and satisfaction rely heavily on collective operations on knowledge of and relations between patients and doctors. Thus, knowledge sharing and doctor-patient trust are among the two critical factors that may lead to medical care quality and satisfaction. However, existing literature discussed the abovementioned in a scant fashion and without considering the gap between knowledge of owners in this context (i.e., care offerers such as doctors and receivers like patients). This paper proposes a conceptual model for an integrative discussion of the relationships among knowledge sharing, trust, medical care quality and patient satisfaction, from a fresh perspective of knowledge gap. Theoretical and practical implications are expected to be rich because this conceotual piece offer discussions from a viewpoint that starts from the mnost fundamental factor – collective knowledge attribute in terms of its heterogeneous structure.

Keywords. Knowledge sharing, Trust, Distant medical care, Quality, Satisfaction.

JEL. D80, D83, D84, D85.

Keywords


Knowledge sharing; Trust; Distant medical care; Quality; Satisfaction.

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